The Dillon tribune., 1887-07-29
\ GREAT WORK FINISHED.
The Etah l. Northern t;,u.. <.J,,,ro., j.,
Quick Time T'c First Trip Osrr
The New Ho:,l,

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from three.toot gauge 10 ,ous feet, eiyh,
and one-hat inches, in tie remarkably
short time OF five hour>--;i,;,t is, each sec
ton OF six miles was wiGcncS. within five
| hours from a given time
! The last narrow gauge train ove, The |
road was 4 passenger train, drawn by cn.
(, gin" o3, which lett Butte u, :, clock Sum
day afternoon. .\> soon As the train got |
we'll under way the work Of " uilicninr be. |
gan. Eaci, section uf six miles was pro- |
ridcd with % men and Il fo, c'rur, who |
stood impa,icntlv waiting for ;I,c train to
pass ;ha' they might get to work
/, The train LETT ;hi, station at n:;,. and
Foreman Henry and his men st, to work
with will. In fifteen minutes lhcy were
almost out Of sight. They worked until
dark and finished their section soon after
daylight Monday morning. vt dark Sun.
night there We're fifty miles ot track,
below Butte, finished!
! At O'Clock Monday mcrn;n, u special
! train, consisting OF Montana Union en-
yinc, passenger coach and two box cars, in
charge OF w. X. Sheppard with Orvillc
Ada'n> engineer, and having on board W.
II. Baldwin, ,]r, general agent, l.. q. Leon
ard, OF .hc .\naconda Hr7Er7;', and ". w
| Kelly pulled out OF South Butte and began
the hrs, r:,n on ,hc new road. At Silver
! Bow Tom Douglass, roalllna>tcr, and J. Mic
Cart, s,'rt. oi bridges, boarded the train.
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OF speed rc,cn,ng Dillon at auuu, eight
clock, Where the party took break ,A~,
~ Dillon thc nunh>r "a> augmented
h" Mrs. Douglass ANA sister. i. W. puin
Q. II. Henry, H. York, the Z, NJ. clerk,
Rev. w. y. Shannon and a 'INlnI. >N re
porter. Aboul :,'n u'c'otk the ~pttiul
put en- >'ra,u "n>, on The >t,ai.;ht piece OF
rack from l}on t. Barrc,,',, van at the
rae OF ) iu1.&, IA hou..
Near Ncil station !. \ Matott, assistant
roaan,4>;@r, ;u'G N. b. !cnneEyrry got on
hoar, >,p,is1-; l;;It ,yas reached. at Mas
Is MD i" IN 1o.lr and ,Avn:y five nin-
uteS.
y stop "ftvo ana ou2-I,aif hours was
made at Spring Hin, here the the party
took dinner, Soon after linncr the train
WAS o:,:crc, 70 beavc, Canyon to NEE; a
special train from Fuc;s,tllo with Sup,.
l!!ickcn~Lcrtrr and party CT ruijroa!
officials.
The following Spring liil people ac.
cu'npanicd the party 10 Beaver Canyon:
Mrs. Ino. peatr, Mr>. ID. L. %Icl.au.hIn,
! Mrs. Hammond, Mr.. and Mrs. Alien, ".
Bernstein .. Goodalr, {. llal,uock, ". l..
Gardner, Cain and Julien, the telegraph
! line rcl,;.jrcr At Alonie!a Miss Mary
Lewis, operator, boarded the train.
The run to Beaver Canyon was made
slowly ant: carefully, Sivn. those on
board good opportunity for notin. the
great changes in the alignment, which
makes saving oil at least five hundred feet
through the canyon. The grad: has also
! been reduced from lbS feet to l,s feet per
mile. The curvature has been reduced
five degrees, which will make Il great saw
ing as fewer helpers will be required in
pulling trains up the canyon to the divide.
! After supper the sbecial left Beaver Can.
; yon for Spring Hill, where it was held un
! til the Pucatcllo special arrived. About
! ten O'Clock the Butte special started north
and arrived at Dillon at l:5o. The Dil-
lonites, were well pleased with their trip.
! The change Of gauge is one Of the ,no>t
important moves ever made by tho man
aycmcnt. /. nearly doubles the carrying
! capacity of the road, while cdacing great.
! " the force OF trainmc., heretofore made
necessary. The road was found to be in
excellent condition, the train running
| smoothly when making forty five miles an
hour. Roadmastcr Douglass declared
that sixty miles per hour could be made
! with safrsv,'aS soon AS the work was com
ple.vd.
t Some fast time was made in changing
oau.c on several sections. The Barrett
section. L. ]. Hopkins, foreman, with
| eighteen men was changed in five hours
and "a minutes. In addition to showing
| the rails out and Spikins the inside, The
men had to drive the spikes on the outside
; and move seven rails The men had Il bet
of s., up that they could do the work in
! side of six hours, and they won.
The best record was made by Dowing
and his men, who made the change in
hours and 4s minutes.
McCartv'> section was finished in tour
hours.